Friday, January 20, 2017

Ever work with somebody who always has a ready excuse for failure or not completing a task? Well, you're probably in the presence of a liberal/Democrat.

Washington Post catalogues the biggestlies Obama ever toldSara Gonzales (http://www.theblaze.com/author/sgonzales/) Jan 19, 2017 4:33 pm
In this photo taken Jan. 18, 2017, President Barack Obama speaks during his final news conference
in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
The Washington Post marked the end of the Obama administration with a list Thursday that likely
didn’t please the outgoing president’s supporters.
For the last five years, the Post has made its political Fact Checker a staple of the publication.
Ranked by “Pinocchios,” contenders receive one Pinocchio for a little lie and can earn up to four
Pinocchios for the most outrageous of fibs.
Though the Post ran its trademark Fact Checker during President Barack Obama’s first campaign, it
wasn’t until 2011 that it became a fixture there, so admittedly the publication missed some
blatant dishonesty.
But the newspaper has fact-checked more than 250 statements made by the current president. On
his last full day in office, the Post published a catalogue of Obama’s 10 biggest lies
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/19/obamas-biggest-
whoppers/?utm_term=.b17d131a19da).

Included on the list, unsurprisingly, was Obama’s statement to the American public while rallying
for Congress to pass his signature health-care legislation, Obamacare: “If you like your health care
plan, you can keep it.”

“If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/30/obamas-
pledge-that-no-one-will-take-away-your-health-plan/?utm_term=.b395cd0a343d)
This memorable promise by Obama backfired on him in 2013 when the Affordable Care Act went
into effect and at least 2 million Americans started receiving cancellation notices. As we
explained, part of the reason for so many cancellations is because of an unusually early (March
23, 2010) cutoff date for grandfathering plans — and because of tight regulations written by the
administration. So the uproar could be pinned directly on the administration’s own actions.

Another whopper was Obama’s claim that all but 10 percent of the federal deficit was due to former
President George W. Bush’s policies. Pushing back against criticisms of running up the deficit at an
unparalleled rate with stimulus packages and bailouts, Obama made this claim during his 2012
campaign.

“90 percent of the budget deficit is due to George W. Bush’s policies”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-claim-that-90-
percent-of-the-current-deficit-is-due-to-bush-policies/2012/09/26/e9bfbcd0-077e-
11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html?utm_term=.bcebdac7793e)
During the 2012 campaign, Obama repeatedly reminded voters that he became president during a
grim economic crisis. But he went too far when he claimed that only 10 percent of the federal
deficit was due to his own policies. About half of the deficit stemmed from the recession and
forecasting errors, but a large chunk (44 percent in 2011) were the result of Obama’s actions. At
another point, Obama also falsely suggested that the Bush tax cuts led to the Great Recession.

And throughout Obama’s two terms in office, he has been quick to dismiss clear acts of terrorism —
using phrases like “workplace violence” or blaming a YouTube video
(http://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/05/02/video-montage-shows-obama-hillary-susan-rice-
and-jay-carney-all-blaming-benghazi-on-the-video/) for an attack on the American consulate in
Benghazi, Libya. The Post also included his categorization of the Benghazi attack as “an act of
terror” and his reference to ISIS as a “JV team.”

But the Post did leave out some key falsehoods recited by Obama over the years. Here are a few:
“Over the past eight years, no foreign terrorist
organization has successfully executed an attack
on our homeland that was directed from
overseas.”
Playing a semantics game (http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/16/obama-brags-that-no-
foreign-ordered-terrorist-attacks-succeeded-under-his-watch/), Obama misrepresented the fact
that there have been many terrorist attacks carried out on American soil by those with ties to
foreign terrorist organizations. In fact, in the case of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
(http://www.nbcnews.com/id/33678801/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/gunman-kills-wounds-
fort-hood/#.WIElsrYrI-c) in Killeen, Texas, Major Nidal Hasan murdered 14 people on the military
base while shouting “allahu akbar” and was shown to be in direct contact with Al Qaeda terrorist
leader Anwar al-Awlaki prior to the attack (http://www.dailywire.com/news/11410/complete-list-
radical-islamic-terror-attacks-us-james-barrett).
ISIS themselves also claimed responsibility (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/isis-claims-
responsibility-garland-texas-shooting-n353761) for a 2015 attack in Garland, Texas, when two men
were taken down by police officers after they shot up a community center hosting a Muhammad
cartoon contest.

“The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of
terrorism” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-
claim-he-called-benghazi-an-act-of-terrorism/2013/05/13/7b65b83e-bc14-11e2-
97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html?utm_term=.e3780d4a7285)Obama did refer to an “act of terror” in the immediate aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi attacks, but
in vague terms, wrapped in a patriotic fervor. He never affirmatively stated that the American
ambassador died because of an “act of terror.” Then, over a period of two weeks, given three
opportunities in interviews to affirmatively agree that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist attack,
the president obfuscated or ducked the question. So this was a case of taking revisionist history
too far for political reasons.
“I didn’t call the Islamic State a ‘JV’ team”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/09/03/spinning-
obamas-reference-to-isis-as-a-jv-team/?utm_term=.35b8a52adab9)In 2014, Obama repeated a claim, crafted by the White House communications team, that he was
not “specifically” referring to the Islamic State terror group when he dismissed the militants who
had taken over Fallujah as a “JV squad.” But The Fact Checker obtained the previously unreleased
transcript of the president’s interview with the New Yorker, and it’s clear that’s who the president
was referencing.

Over the last eight years, there were even more terrorist-related attacks in the country, including
the San Bernardino attack, Boston Marathon attack, and a 2009 Little Rock, Arkansas, attack
(http://www.dailywire.com/news/11410/complete-list-radical-islamic-terror-attacks-us-james-
barrett) when Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot two soldiers at a military recruiting station.
Muhammad also had ties to al-Qaeda.
“Let me say this as plainly as I can: by Aug. 31,
2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.”
Obama claimed (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-
ndash-responsibly-ending-war-iraq) that combat operations would be finished by 2010 and later
took credit for ending U.S. combat in Iraq. But his own former Defense Secretary Robert Gates
disputed that in 2016, the White House did a “disservice” to troops by engaging in word games.
“I think that it is incredibly unfortunate not to speak openly about what’s going on,” Gates
told MSNBC. “American troops are in action, they are being killed, they are in combat. And these
semantic backflips to avoid using the term combat is a disservice to those who are out there putting
their lives on the line.”
“We have not had a major scandal in my
administration.”
Obama sidestepped (http://dailysignal.com/2016/10/24/9-controversies-obama-didnt-mention-
when-he-denied-any-major-scandals/) the comprehensive list of scandals that plagued his tenure
as president. These scandals include but are not limited to: the Operation Fast and Furious gun
walking scandal (http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/barack-obama-scandal-atf-fast-and-
furious/2014/12/28/id/613434/), the IRS scandal
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/14/everything-you-need-to-know-
about-the-irs-scandal-in-one-faq/) involving IRS workers intentionally targeting Tea Party
organizations, and his own Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using a private email server
(http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/politics/hillary-clinton-email-controversy-explained-2016/).

Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.

The Goals of Communism

(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.